Word: airing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later, at a great show trial before the German Supreme Court in Leipzig, one of the key witnesses was Prussia's Minister President Hermann Göring (later Hitler's portly air marshal), who testified that the Reichstag fire resulted from a well-planned Communist conspiracy. Van der Lubbe, who acted like an idiot during the trial. was sentenced to death and executed. But Bulgarian Communist Codefendant Georgi Dimitrov-later to become Communist boss of Bulgaria and then fall from Stalin's favor for Titoism-and three other prominent Communists had to be freed for lack...
Nivins was the manager of a rock 'n' roll singer named Melrose Baggy. Would Tom Clay take $200 and play a Baggy song on the air? No, said Clay. Later, they went for a ride in Clay's new Lincoln, and Nivins propositioned him again, offering $100. "I tell him, like, it was $200 last time," says Clay. "I also tell him this is one record which isn't going to happen. I find out later he has a tape recorder in his clothing...
Heading back to his pits, Staudacher sighted a photographer on shore, decided exuberantly to give him a good shot at the boat's bellowing speed. He opened up his J35 engine, the same model that drives the Air Force's F89 fighter, and Tempo-Alcoa zoomed up to 180 m.p.h. Then he cut the engine. Two miles ahead, a small peninsula called Pelican Point jutted out into the water. The distance seemed safe enough. The boat had earlier slowed from 260 m.p.h. to a stop in less than a mile. But now a sudden breeze stirred sharp ruffles...
Staudacher crashed into Pelican Point at 150 m.p.h. The boat missed a shelf of rocks by 18 in., rose majestically and hurtled some 150 ft. through the air, came down on a bank of loam and sand that was about the only spot on the peninsula not covered by rocks, skidded nearly into the water on the far side of Pelican Point before stopping...
Fiorello! matches up with La Guardia, telling the story of New York City's Little Flower from the time he first ran for Congress until his second and successful bid for mayor. The irascibly humane fighting gamecock, whose career, as a matter of fact, has something of the air of a war cry, displays in the theater, as he did on the platform, a naturally theatrical personality. The period through which he moves (about 1916 to 1933) has a persistently gaudy glamour. And out of a dynamic human being and a razzle-dazzle era has come an uneven...